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Old 03-19-2008
faltooweb faltooweb is offline
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extract multiple sections of file
#-- Use ST values as output filename.
awk -v out="/dev/null" '
/^ST/ {gsub("\\*","-",$0); out=$0".txt"}
/^SE/ { close(out) }
{ printf "%s\n",$0 >> out }
' $INFILE

Output will be
ST-810-0001.txt
so on ...

-Ramesh